Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
Looks like the 2080ti does have an unusually big performance gap.

In most games and with a reasonable setup, the GPU has a higher workload per frame than the CPU, so at some point getting a faster cpu doesn't do much - it's just waiting for the GPU to finish the next frame... unless you're rendering 3d animation to a video file where the engine is not handicapped by having to render in real time.

If $2400 is already less than you were looking to spend just get the "glorious" build on parts picker. I'd swap the AIO cooler with an NH-D15, but that's about it.
Noctua's are THE shit. I just don't understand why people prefer to go wet rather than tried-and-true, good old fashioned air coolers. Air's basically run forever, water you have to check for actual shit build-up, check for current flow, all kinds of stuff designed to fail in a year and fuck you up